Here comes another marketing round from Microsoft, as it has launched a YourBrowserMatters.org web site, designed to inform everyday consumer (who rarely visits such pages anyway) about the dangers of the Internet.

Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.

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Armin

Well, isn’t that just a low blow to Opera…

Scorpion3003

That site is a load of crap anyway. can’t take it serious if it doesn’t include all the the major
browsers.

Pseudo555

if you mask opera as IE, you will got a 4/4 score…

Katimwilk

Yes, the test is really just browser sniffing to determine what content you’ll be shown. Perfect example of how browser sniffing works.

Mikah

Perfect example of how browser sniffing works & of Microsoft shoveling bullshit.

http://twitter.com/bricky149 Shane Bundy

Nightly builds of Firefox don’t register. :-|

Anonymous

I don’t know anyone that uses Safari on windows. Microsoft wouldn’t bother same thing with Opera.

All of the browsers do a good job at screening. I have found from experience that IE does it one better

Mikah

If you want extra screening use the Comodo or Open DNS servers.

Anonymous

Sorry those things make it slow.

Norton has a good one also

Moz

As a regular user and supporter of IE9, this really is nothing more than bad propaganda. Without stating any reasons why Firefox and Chrome get a 2/4 while IE9 gets a 4/4, you can’t take anything on that site seriously.

I don’t know who thought doing this was a good idea, but they really should re-think their marketing strategy, because this is a complete failure.

Mikah

Sad thing is that probably 95% lap it up including most journalists who should know better.

http://my.opera.com/swapnil99pro Swapnil Rustagi

Microsoft should be ashamed of itself, but instead of that it shamelessly says other browsers do not line up with IE. In real world, IE is a huge piece of crap and junk. IE is surviving due to Windows. One day when Windows finally meets a huge competitor which is both financially and technologically strong, then Microsoft could think about it’s end.